These Gluten-Free Pumpkin Spice Cookies are full of sugar, spice and everything nice.
Today, I’m baking a difference to help raise awareness about childhood cancer. Did you know that cancer is the number one cause of death by disease of children in the U.S.? Even so, less than 4% of the National Cancer Institute’s budget goes to all childhood cancers combined. Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a non-profit organization, raises funds for research to develop new, improved treatments for pediatric cancer. Funds are granted to five of the nation’s leading childhood cancer research centers to find less toxic, more effective treatments.
One of my friends lost her son to cancer at the age of eleven, and I can never imagine the pain and suffering she and her family went through and continue to go through each and every day.
To help spread the word about childhood cancer and the need for research funding, OXO asked me to share a cookie recipe. They are donating up to $100,000 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer through specially marked baking tools, bake sale matches and other fundraising efforts. For this blog post and others supporting this cause, they’re donating $100 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. You can get involved too! As Cookies for Kids’ Cancer says ~ Everyone can Be a Good Cookie™. Whether you host a bake sale, organize a cookie swap, or make a donation.
You can also help by buying specially marked OXO products with the Cookies for Kids’ Cancer logo. For every stickered item sold, OXO will donate 25 cents in support of pediatric cancer research as part of its $100,000* pledge to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer), we can all help raise awareness to help fight childhood cancer.
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground flax seed
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 1/4 cup 5.3 ounces gluten-free oat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin spice blend
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup organic butter softened
- 3/4 cup organic sugar
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- organic powdered sugar optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a small bowl, mix together ground flax seed and water; set aside. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. In a medium bowl, cream together butter and sugar; add pumpkin puree, flax seed mixture, and vanilla, and mix well. Add dry ingredients. Scoop onto Silplat lined baking sheet (or use parchment paper). Bake 15-16 minutes. Let cool; gently use spatula to transfer cookies to a plate. Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar, if desired.
Recipe Notes
Adapted from allrecipes.com
Disclosures:
I received a Drop Cookie Set for my participation in this campaign; OXO will be donating $100 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer for this blog post.
SUCH a great cause!! And great cookies to support them. Can’t go wrong with pumpkin spice!
It’s so sad that we lose so many children to cancer. Amazing cause and the cookies look so good! Love your comparison of the cookies to kids: they’re sugar, spice, and everything nice!
Jeanette! Love these cookies!! My dear friend also lost her infant son, he passed shortly after he turned one, to cancer. It breaks my heart into a million pieces. . glad to be supporting Cookies for Kid’s Cancer with you this month.
That is a great cause, and I love these cookies! Can’t wait for pumpkin season to come in full swing!
what a great thing OXO is doing. i love them even more now. and i’m thrilled that we’re entering into pumpkin spice time. these lovely cookies look like the perfect way to kick it off! thanks for sharing this cause and these cookies.
Look very delicious!! I’ve gotta try this recipe!
Thanks for your support everyone! Childhood cancer is so devastating, so I appreciate your help spreading the word to help raise funds for more research.
Baking for a good cause is wonderful and I LOVE these cookies, Jeanette.
How fitting I find this after both watching and donating to Stand Up To Cancer Canada, which is the first time there’s been Canadian participation in this amazing fund raiser. If there hadn’t been a lighting strike that ended up scuttling the Toronto portion of the broadcast, the official announcement of a Stand Up Peds Dream Team at Sick Kids would be more well known, but…Thank Twitter for that!!
We have been so blessed not to have any Peds Cancer among our Family and Friends, but my Brother in Law is prepping for a Stem Cell Transplant next month and just learned our Next Door Neighbour has Lukemia, so… :o(. This terrible disease has taken far too many from us and Bless OXO for doing this and coming up w/such an amazing fundraising idea.
Mom makes Cookies like these and I have missed since my Celiac diagonsis and I have missed. Can not wait to give these a try, as they look yummy!!
Would an egg work in place of the flax + water?
The amount of flax seed and water I used is equivalent to 1/2 an egg.
Fantastic cookies for an even more fantastic cause!
Great idea for a good cause! And the idea of a gluten free recipe also does help to a genuine health problems like celiac disease. It will not only help those kids with cancer but also those people with this kind of disease who are looking for a great recipe.
These look amazing! Fall is definitely in the air this weekend. Do you think I could sub oil (coconut or olive) for the butter?
Sally, I haven’t tried that, but it might work. The main thing I would be concerned with is the consistency of the cookie dough. Maybe try refrigerating it so it’s firm when you bake the cookies, so they don’t spread out too thin.